[CoLoCo] Microsoft is nucking futs!!!

[W S]

I wouldn't be so sure about that... I know plenty of people that
received netbooks over the holiday and all of 'em were running XP.
And if the people I know who like netbooks (mostly female) are
anything of the target audience, they usually only run a browser, and
(sometimes) e-mail and a music/media player.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> They've officially dug their own grave.  The Windows 7 Starter Kit
> intended for netbooks to counter the growth of Linux in that market
> will be leaving the gate hobbled by a built-in limitation.  The
> Starter Kit version can only run 3 concurrent applications not
> counting anti-virus software, thus likely forcing netbook makers to
> raise prices for the Windows versions of their machines with the Home
> Basic version which doesn't have this limitation.
>
> Either way this won't stop the proliferation of Linux in the netbook
> market, it will expand it.  Needless to say if this is how Microsoft
> intended to combat Linux in the netbook market we don't have much to
> worry about.
>
> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/246859/windows-7-a-nonstarter-on-netbooks.html
>
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